Mighty Fine – The Bee’s Knees – #Giveaway

Honeycomb Dip Sweets:

What happens when you find that one of your products is a runaway success? In the case of Mighty Fine, the founders started by running a small chocolate shop in Camden. Of their product range, one, in particular, seemed to constantly sell out. Their handmade honeycomb was constantly in demand.

Now there’s a range of three tasty artisan honeycomb chocolates – all made with natural ingredients and real honey. I’ve been trying them and I love them all. There’s a gentle, creamy milk chocolate, a dark chocolate which contrasts beautifully with the sweet honeycomb and my personal favourite, salted caramel.

All of them are handcrafted in beautiful copper pots, using dollops of honey (rather than just sugar as found in most honeycomb) and the recipe is based on traditional techniques, perfected after thousands of hours in the kitchen, to ensure a good crunch every time.

And, mighty Fine Honeycomb are also committed to the environment, so 5% of profits are donated to Friends of the Honeybee, a campaign organised by the British Beekeepers Association to halt the decreasing number of Britain’s honey bees and other pollinators and build a better future for them.

You should find the range in Waitrose from the end of May, but just in case you can’t I’ve got 3 sets of each flavour to give away. All you need to do is follow the rafflecopter through, remembering to leave the mandatory blog comment;)a Rafflecopter giveaway

I think it’s probably good to use honey whenever you can, because if demand goes up then companies/keepers will look into having more hives, and they can probably do more than any individual consumer can.

I’ve also seen some little houses for bumblebees which are a really sweet idea, don’t know if they’re practical or not though.

As a child my Dad kept bees, he had 22 hives at one point, so we need to do as much as we can to save them. Starting by being able to tell the difference between a honey bee and a wasp so we don’t kill bees on purpose in our houses. Then make sure we plat lots of bee friendly plants and don’t destroy their habitat.

Grow food organically and plant flowers such as fox gloves and lavender to give them plenty to eat. If you see a tired looking bee, feed it sugar water, watch it drink up and get the energy to fly off.

I used to keep bees and I think more people should be encourage to have a hive in their garden. Even if you are not interested in harvesting honey, they are fascinating to watch and you are helping increase the population.

Leave more wild patches in our gardens and wild flower strips on farms. We definitely need to be using a lot less pesticides. Dandelions, ragwort, hawthorn and white clover are great for attracting foraging bees.

By stopping the use of certain chemicals that harm them and planting more flowers that attract them. We keep our garden totally organic and have had loads of success with attracting more bees into the garden x

Ditch the busy lizzies. Every flat and garden in the UK should have at least one buddleia, honeysuckle, cotoneaster or any other shrub that is attractive to bees and other wildlife. Modern horticultural science means that small versions of many shrubs and trees are now available and can be grown in pots.

We should be planting more bee friendly flowers in our gardens – if everyone planted even a few extra bee friendly plants it would make a tremendous difference overall. Also in our own gardens we should be using only natural bee friendly products. On a national level we should be seeding any wild areas with bee friendly plants.

keep a wild patch in the garden with wild/meadow flowers so they have somewhere to visit, if you find a bee on the ground give it a drink of water a lot of the time they are just dehydrated and will perk up, if you have a bee in your home gently encourage it outside

If your local council doesn’t already, suggest they replace patches of grasses and verges with wild flowers. Our council has replaced a large patch of grass in the centre of town with wildflowers and it looks amazing as well as attracting bees

We need to stop people panicking and killing them -so educating people to the fact that we need bees to survive and planting nice flowers for them and using more bee friendly products in the farmers fields.

Cutter and Squidge Easter

Swap your Easter egg for the most luxurious handcrafted treat made with premium chocolate and all natural ingredients!

The FUNFETTI (FUNFETTI EASTER EGG - £ 13.50) milk chocolate half egg holds lots of surprises inside! Under the silky milk chocolate ganache you will find generous chunks of honeycomb and sprinkles of chocolate crumble. Filled with white chocolate mini eggs, fluffy vegetarian marshmallow squares and handmade funfetti jazzies for all the fun you can have in an Easter egg! Comes complete with a spoon to enjoy it.